Essay about Sri Lanka Economic Crisis On March 31st hundreds of protesters gathered outside Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajpaksha's residence in Colombo. Many in the crowd were holding posters with anti-government slogans and were chanting gotta go home in sinhala The protesters demanded that the government stepped down immediately for mishandling the country's economy a day after president raja paksha declared a state of emergency Sri Lanka is witnessing its worst economic crisis since independence, the island nation had announced a nationwide 13-hour daily powercut from March 31st there is an acute shortage of food, fuel, and cooking gas. Several hospitals have had to suspend routine surgeries as they have run out of life-saving medicines authorities had to cancel examinations for millions of students due to a shortage of paper During the first wave of the pandemic, thousands of Sri Lankan laborers working in several West Asian countries were forced to return home
Essay on Metro Rail The rapidly growing population, expanding cities, and heavy rush, as a result of rapid industrialisation and urbanisation has led to the need for cheap and convenient modes of conveyance for public transport, especially in the metro cities. A well planned Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) such as the Metro Rail forms the lifeline of the cosmopolitan cities which have a population of thousands of lakhs. The government must decide the metro model for a particular region depending on the basis of the region's logistics, financial resources, population. It should avoid aping metro models of the other countries. The fact that the metro projects are meant to serve the cities with more than four million population needs to be kept in mind. The costs associated with these projects are decided on the basis of the metro project being underground, elevated or at ground level. The larger the underground and elevated proposal, the larger shall be the cost involved. The f